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Pope Francis prays for ‘victims of war’ in Iraq’s Mosul
6 years agoPope Francis rides in a golf cart at the ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the old city of Iraq's northern Mosul on March 7, 2021. - Pope Francis, on his historic Iraq tour, visits today Christian communities that endured the brutality of the Islamic State group until the jihadists' "caliphate" was defeated three years ago (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)
Pope Francis prayed Sunday for "victims of war" outside a ruined church in Iraq's Mosul, where the Islamic State group ravaged one of the world's oldest Christian communities until the jihadists' defeat three years ago.